Management Team
Des Wilson, Chief Executive Officer
As Chief Executive Officer and a member of the BreakingPoint Board of Directors, Des Wilson brings more than 20 years of leadership and a strong track record of building high growth technology companies. Before joining BreakingPoint, Wilson served as CEO at Axel Johnson Inc., a $3 billion privately owned corporation with interests in the technology, energy, and environmental sectors. Wilson’s knowledge of the network and application test industry was developed over the course of a 14-year long career at Hekimian Laboratories Inc., a leading supplier of network management and test systems for telecommunications service providers. Wilson was ultimately selected to lead the company as Chief Executive Officer. Under Wilson’s leadership, the company was acquired by Spirent Communications, and Wilson was appointed President of the Spirent Service Assurance Division.
Dennis Cox, Chief Technology Officer
Dennis Cox co-founded BreakingPoint in 2005 and serves as its Chief Technology Officer. At BreakingPoint Cox is responsible for technical direction, security research and engineering. Cox, who has more than 15 years of industry experience bringing high-performance network devices to market, is also the author of numerous patents on various topics from IP Spoofing to Network Processors. Previously, Cox was one of the founders and the Director of Engineering at TippingPoint. Responsible for product direction at TippingPoint, Cox created innovations in intrusion prevention systems (IPS) and saw the company through its acquisition by 3Com in 2005. Cox is also a frequent contributor to online technology publications and a highlighted speaker at technology events.
Craig Cantrell, Chief Operating Officer
As co-founder and Chief Operating Officer, Craig Cantrell heads up product testing and quality assurance, as well as customer service and support. Cantrell's industry experience as a developer of network equipment and a user of test equipment provides BreakingPoint with a unique prespective of customer needs. Prior to joining BreakingPoint, Cantrell served as Vice President of Development for TippingPoint. Cantrell has held leadership positions in numerous high tech organizations including Cisco, NetSpeed, and Interphase Corporation.
Jon Dorton, Chief Financial Officer
Jon Dorton joined BreakingPoint with more than 15 years of finance experience helping to lead high-growth technology and service provider organizations. During his career Dorton has witnessed first hand the dynamic needs of today’s data infrastructure and how critical realistic network simulation is to ensuring network security, integrity and overall resiliency. At BreakingPoint he is responsible for all finance, accounting, human resources and compliance functions. Dorton most recently was CFO of FundsXpress Financial Network, an ASP that provided a full suite of outsourced Internet based financial services and has worked for leading organizations such as KPMG, LLP and Ernst and Young, LLP.
Keith Brewer, Vice President of Hardware Development and Operations
Leveraging more than 23 years of engineering design and management experience, Keith Brewer leads the development and manufacturing of BreakingPoint’s high performance application and network equipment testing systems. Brewer has an impressive track record of bringing high speed network products to market for companies such as General Bandwidth, Cisco, and NetSpeed. He holds numerous patents in packet switching technology and degrees in both electrical engineering and computer science from Rice University.
Stephane Johnson, Vice President of International Sales
Stephane Johnson leads BreakingPoint’s growing international sales team which includes direct sales support offices in the United Kingdom, France, Israel, and China. Johnson was most recently Vice President of Business Development at Symmetricom's QoE Assurance Division. Prior to Symmetricom, he served in senior executive sales, business development, and international sales management positions at Spirent Communications/Netcom Systems, where he ended up managing a worldwide sales team of 250 employees with sales of $350 million. Johnson significantly grew and improved the company's sales, support, and partner programs working with companies such as Cisco, Alcatel, ATT, Verizon, France Telecom, Deutsche Telecom, BT, NTT, and China Netcom. Johnson's experience also includes sales positions at Phillips Communication, Experdata, and TITN. He received a Bachelor of Science and Masters of Science in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University.
Jim Alnwick, Vice President of North American Sales
Jim Alnwick is a senior sales executive with more than 20 years of success in developing worldwide sales organizations in the telecommunications industry. His experience spans the spectrum from building a sales department from the ground-up and taking sales for a startup from $0 to multiple millions in just a few months, to streamlining and developing new strategies for Fortune 100 companies while booking upwards of $250 million in revenue. When implementing his overall sales strategy, Alnwick adheres to his strength in team and channel development while properly defining and executing sales strategies. Prior to joining BreakingPoint, Alnwick served as Vice President of Monitoring Sales with Empirix and before that Worldwide Sales Manager for Agilent. Alnwick has also helped build successful sales processes and organizations with Hekimian (now Spirent), HP and Harris Corporation. He recieved his Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration from Adelphi University's School of Business.